Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on August 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

Vista RC1 is now due in two weeks but I am a little skeptical of whether they will be able to make it. Earlier today I wrote that it might even be better if Microsoft pushed the release of vista back a couple weeks and used the time to release a Beta 3 to the public. At this point Microsoft will probably do just about anything to avoid another delay.

Well, I was browsing the Web and came across an article that Paul Thurrott wrote a year ago about Vista’s milestone release dates. We all know that Vista has slipped considerably but how have the dates changed in the past year? Check it out:

Despite rumors to the contrary, but in keeping with the schedule I first published on the SuperSite for Windows months ago, Microsoft is planning to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 in late 2005, not in early 2006. According to internal documentation I recently reviewed, Vista Beta 2 is scheduled to be “feature complete” by September 29, 2005. Then, Vista Beta 2 will enter lockdown mode between October and November 9, 2005. After that date, Beta 2 will be in escrow. Microsoft now plans to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 on December 7, 2005, about three weeks later than the last schedule I obtained.

What about post-Beta 2? According to a second set of documentation I viewed Monday, Microsoft will ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 0 (RC0) on April 19, 2006, and Windows Vista RC1 on June 28, 2006. Microsoft currently plans to release Windows Vista to manufacturing on August 9, 2006, and make the product broadly available by November 15, 2006.

So it looks like Microsoft delayed Beta 2 by about 6 months and there is no Vista RC0 that I have heard of. They are jumping straight to RC1…probably in hopes to catch up a little.

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Sure, we like keeping track of where we’ve been, and about every day a new gadget comes along that allows us to better see the virtual breadcrumbs we’ve spread across the land. But, when it comes to letting the government snoop on our carb-loaded morsels, many of us are a little bit leery. Thus there is a growing debate about whether federal use of those breadcrumbs is legitimate, like the FBI identifying Texan bank robbers by co-locating phone calls made at various crime scenes. For its part the current administration indicates that you have no “reasonable expectation of privacy” when it comes to the location of your cellphone. This has members of the ACLU and EFF on-edge, but we’re guessing that this doesn’t concern any of you Latitude or Foursquare members in the slightest, yeah?

[Thanks, Joshua]

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Hear that, globetrotters? Just months after your hopes and dreams were obliterated, we’re now hearing that the Zune HD and its associated music / video services are going international, and it could happen by the end of the year. At least that’s the word given to Mary Jo Foley from Casey McGee, Microsoft Senior Marketing Manager. In a recent sit-down, Casey noted that the company’s Zune music / video service “would be available in all countries where Windows 7 Phones will ship,” and while it has yet to make that full list of nations publicly available, we already learned that the new mobile OS has gained support from mobile operators all over Europe. Putting two and two together can be difficult at times, but hopefully we aren’t reading too much into this (painfully simple) equation.

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